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Just booted Felicia and I have noticed that it takes a long time to shut down my system..

From the time I click "Shut Down," watch the splash screen and another blank screen with a blinking cursor in the top left; until my computer is completely off it's been 2 minutes. Just seems like a long time to shut down doesn't it?

Is it a Felicia thing, or is it just me?

BTW, I've updated all level 2 updates available and I am currently trying to install proprietary video card drivers.

that is an upstream bug from Ubuntu, I have installed all level 3 updates, and one of them fixes this, you may want to give that a try. If that doesn't help, there is a hack that works, but it is a dirty hack, so give the level 3 updates a first.

Just so you know, level 3 updates are generally safe, i have never seen issues with them.

McLovin wrote:that is an upstream bug from Ubuntu, I have installed all level 3 updates, and one of them fixes this, you may want to give that a try. If that doesn't help, there is a hack that works, but it is a dirty hack, so give the level 3 updates a first.

Just so you know, level 3 updates are generally safe, i have never seen issues with them.

I am experiencing slow shutdowns also. This condition only shows up after I add mount commands in my fstab file for samba shares. Mint-5 did not have this problem. The message I see is as follows:

thats fine, but you do not need to mount samba shares in another linux distro, if you are doing linux to linux use nfs, it is much better for that purpose, you do not need to use samba on the host machine, only the server. I use samba on my server, as i have windows installed on one of my partitions, but in linux i use all nfs, so my server is running nfs, and samba, but my linux hosts are running only nfs. there are alot of great tutorials on how to set-up nfs so that your network, (nfs) shares automount on boot, and your shares also automount on windows with samba. if you need more help, I can help you out, as this is how my server is configured, just let me know.

McLovin wrote:thats fine, but you do not need to mount samba shares in another linux distro, if you are doing linux to linux use nfs, it is much better for that purpose, you do not need to use samba on the host machine, only the server. I use samba on my server, as i have windows installed on one of my partitions, but in linux i use all nfs, so my server is running nfs, and samba, but my linux hosts are running only nfs. there are alot of great tutorials on how to set-up nfs so that your network, (nfs) shares automount on boot, and your shares also automount on windows with samba. if you need more help, I can help you out, as this is how my server is configured, just let me know.

The point is that Mint-6 or Ubuntu has broken something that worked in the previous release. In fact I have been using Samba on my network in this manner since my first Linux install of Fedora-4 years ago. I wanted to bring this issue to the Mint team and was hoping for an explanation of the problem. If NFS is my only option then I will pursue it.

The instructions suggested Windows XP or better, so I installed Linux :)